How does it all play out

[Tobra]

How does it all play out in the end?

Is it like Planet of the Apes, we nuke everything and Dr Cornelius takes over.

We keep it together, and have more of a Star Trek situation, or blow it and end up with a Logan's Run or Clockwork Orange scenario

Or maybe Rockatansky loses everything, there is some sort of apocalypse that keeps the Aussies from going to the beach, resulting in a Mad Max type of a deal.

Kevin's Gate comes through, and we end up with a Waterworld.

Idiocracy wins by a mile probably, but you never want to count out those guys that stole the car Wayne ended up with from Clockwork Orange. I need to go check that thread.

So how does it play out

[jamesnmlaw]

With a whimper, not a bang. Probably more like Elysium, but without the sky cities. Someday in the future, someone will look back at the early 21st century and remember the good times.

[Roswell]

wiped out by AI or a rogue virus that escaped the bio-weapons lab...and sooner rather than later...

[ckissick]

An asteroid or a super volcano.

[GH85Carrera]

As a long time Science Fiction fan I have read a lot of Asimov and Heinlein, Arthur Clarke. Most of them dealt with the far distant future, as the near term is a crapshoot.

Reading about the Cuban Missile crisis, and looking back on the situation through history, we had two chances right then to have had WW3. The great news is JFK was the perfect president at the time, and ignored the advice of the military to strike. We know now what he did not, the Russians were ready on the island for an invasion.

Even scarier was a Russian submarine was underwater with no communications to Moscow. The captain ordered the launch of a nuke, but the political officer, and the other man with the second key both said no, risking court marshal, and life in prison or execution to defy the captain. They demanded they surface and get confirmation from Moscow. When they surfaced an American destroyer had guns aimed at them, but did not fire. They called Moscow and were told to stand down, and return home.

We were literally just seconds away from WW3. With luck, we will never get that close again, but China and Russia and North Korea are all just unpredictable. Hopefully all of them understand just one of our nuclear submarines can lay waist to their major cities, and we have lots of subs.

I honestly hope for a Start Trek future, where technology has solved most problems. Imagine a future where a replicator can make you any meal, diamonds, gold or component. Money is no longer really needed as everyone has access to resources. Pop into a transporter and travel to any place on Earth instantly. Medicine can fix and cure about anything.

All we need is some Dilithium Chrystals.

[Noah930]

Wall-E

[hbueno]

Lighten up. We'll be long dead and it will be the same old same old.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Tobra

How does it all play out in the end?

Over-population will eventually do us in. Food, water, and other resources are already in short supply in some places. It'll be a slow and gradual decline. Global tensions will result in conflict as the Earth struggles to support the ever-expanding human population. The end of humanity's run on this planet will not be pretty.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by rcooled

Over-population will eventually do us in. Food, water, and other resources are already in short supply in some places. It'll be a slow and gradual decline. Global tensions will result in conflict as the Earth struggles to support the ever-expanding human population. The end of humanity's run on this planet will not be pretty.

Population is on the decline. Well, growth is on the decline with a zero growth forecasted at the end of the 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline

I'm with you on resource constraint though, regardless of population size.

[Cairo94507]

Soylent Green is the future.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Tobra

How does it all play out in the end?

We'll die of either boredom or apathy. Ever seen the movie Equilibrium?

[Baz]

I've seen the enemy and it is us......

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Tobra

How does it all play out in the end?

Someone unplugs the Pelican server?

[Crowbob]

Humanity will cure overpopulation. It’s what populations do. Overly dense populations of mice (and other mammals) resort to infanticide and cannnibalism to reduce their numbers.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by KC911

Someone unplugs the Pelican server?

That used to happen quite frequently. We made it through it.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

1. California plunges into the sea.
2. I go back to Annandale.

[WPOZZZ]

IDGAF because I won't be around when it happens.

[red 928]

domed

[KFC911]

Poof .... gone!

[sc_rufctr]

Ultimately it's up to us and I've always been an optimist.

Like every other major problem of the past this will be solved... But it will be painful.
- Or we'll Nuke ourselves and that's that.